Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-02-26

Los Angeles IS faloing ner gamblers.
Sneak thieve are working Los Angeles.
Cattle are starving in British Columbia.
San Luis Obispo has organized Board Of
Trade.
The crop outlook in Tehama county is ex-
cellent.
Three feet of snow in the mountains around
Santa Barbara.
Pete Olsen the Wooden Valley murderer,
is still at large.
An immense amount of ore is being shipped
to the Redding reductonw oiks.
Pinkerton detectives are said to be on the
trail of Springer, the Cotton murderer.
The owners Of the Napa Wooden Mills do
not contemplate moving the mills to Oakland
Nine polygamists were sentenced to six
months Imprisonment at Salt Lake lastweek.
The wife of Norman Whitney OF Marysville,
committed suicide Sunday by taking poison.
Mexican family in San Luis Obispo the other
day.
tits said that the southern portion of the
Umpqua Valley will soon be one solid prune
orchard.
w. Barry, lawyer at MADEIRA, attempted
suicide by morphine Thursday and will prob
ably die.
Three prisoners escaped from the Petaluma
station.hous Monday night. Two were re-
captured.
Jimmy Tucker and wife, keepers of mer-
ced dance house, have been arrested for EN-.
bezzlement.
William Reese was killed Thursday by
falling down the shaft of the Ontario mine,
Butte county.
Citizens Of San Jose almost unanimously
favor the projected cable road and electric
lighting system.
A gentleman of means and push is soon
to build clam cannery at the Pismo Beach,
San Luis obispo.
A man supposed to be William Springer,
the Cotton wife murderer, has been arrested
at San LUIS Obispo.
Fred. Nozzle was accidentally shot and kill.
ed by F. Pittman, Monday, at the Long Tom
mine, Kern county.
Monday night a tornado forty feet wide
swept over Butte county for six miles. Fences
and cabins were blown down.
The V allejo race-track has been sold to
B. c. Hawley, noted Colorado stock raj
ser. He will set up his stable there.
There are more men at work in the Tomb
stone, A. T., mines at the present time than
there has been for the past two years.
There is more demand for mining property
and more sales have been made in New Mex
leo and Arizona the last six months than there
has been for years.
At San Rafael Sunday night James Fitzroy
shot David Guttefeld. Fitzroy claims to have
acted in self-defense. The result of Cutie
fields wound is doubtful.
A force Of machinists are at work at Mare
Island stripping naval vessels condemned to
be sold of all articles of value appertaining
to the steam engineering department.
Saidthat the Digger Indians, having relied
upon the signs portending mild winter, fail
ed to prepare for severe weather. and are suf-
fering from cold and scarcity of food.
Several ranchers in the vicinity OF Locke.
ford, San Joaquin county, expressed will.
ingness to subdivide their ranches into lots to
suit purchasers, and thus help along the
boom.
Many farmers near Hanford, Tulare coun-
ty, are raising castor trees, and the product.
ion of castor oil from these beans is liable to
be an important industry in that locality be-
fore long.
The movements of trains on all the lines
centering at Los Angeles now aggregate about
SS'S"tJ- tiaiHS uaiiJ' II tdkCs iOO engines
to do the work, and the cars moved daily are
about 500.
The Sacramento river at Knights Landing
is rapidly falling at the present time. The
land northeast Of Knights Landing is entire
ly submerged, and looks like an inland sea.
The breaks in the levee have not as yet been
repaired.
Three large stamp mills closed down at
Butte, NJ. T., Monday for want of salt and two
more closed Tuesday, thereby stopping work
in all the silver and copper mines and throw.
ing about $500 men out of work. The trou.
BILE is due to the snow blockade.
Governor Leslie, of Oregon, has granted
another respite of thirty days to Thomas Har-
ding, the Glendale stage-driver murderer,
who was to have been HANGED on the orth